Ke$ha's "Influences" via her MySpace

If you're like me, you occasionally put on the radio while driving or check out the Billboard Hot 100 to see what's being shoved onto the poor youth of today. There's this LA-type Lady Gaga rip off that's number one who calls herself "Ke$ha", so I checked out her MySpace and her "influences" are too funny! It's like a marketing team just threw in every single decent indie alternative band on it in hopes oblivious trendy kids will buy into it.

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First off, she put Bowie on there twice, and secondly, this list would've made more sense if she just put "pussy" because that's why she's #1. Whoever 'got some' must be blind though because there's something irrevocably repulsive about this human being...or is she even that?

I also read an article where she said she had an older brother who got her into bands like Fugazi and Dinosaur Jr. When will people learn that "influences" and "bands you listen to" are two entirely different things?

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Sometime in 2008 I went to my friends' show at the Unknown Theater in Hollywood which usually puts on small art plays but allows teenagers and amateur bands to book it afterwards for small concerts.

The show had been booked by my friend Spencer and nearly all the performers were friends of mine either from my high school or from nearby LA high schools. The audience was extremely small, less than 100, and was comprised almost entirely of friends of the bands.

After the first band was done, my friend Spencer, who was MCing the show, went on stage and said "OK everybody, please welcome to the stage Kesha!" And before I got the chance to ask myself "Who the fuck is Kesha?" She took the stage in her stupid torn stockings and loose fitting american apparel t-shirt and began yelling at everyone over a generic synth-pop beat and commanding them to get up and start dancing. I listened to about 1 minute of her talking about vodka and her pussy before I couldn't take it anymore and left the room to go stand outside.

As I stepped out of the theater onto the suddenly crowded sidewalk I realized that nearly every single person who had been inside watching the previous band had been totally put off by Kesha and left immediately to get some fresh air, including Spencer who had introduced her only moments ago. I went up and asked him who this girl was and why he had been insane enough to book her. He said that he really did not want to book her but that a friend of his had forced him to do so. As soon as she finished her set, everyone filed back into the theater and the show was able to continue uninterrupted by such awfulness.

So you can imagine my surprise and horror when a few months later I hear about Flo Rida's "Right Round (feat. Ke$ha)", and then her performance at Lollapalooza, and then hearing Tik Tok and Boots and Boys and all her other shit productions at parties and on the radio.

Of all the young and talented musicians I saw at the Unknown Theater that night, Ke$ha would be the last one I would have predicted would go on to any sort of mainstream fame or success. But isn't that how it always works out?

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I heard her for the first time on the radio the other day. When it first came on my imediate thought was "What is Uffie doing on the radio?"

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